SAN DIEGO, California, July 9, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The general counsel for the National Education Association (NEA), America's largest teacher's union, complained last week of the "conservative and right-wing bastards" that are "after" the NEA. At the same meeting, the NEA rejected a proposal that would have ceased their abortion advocacy, and went on record in support of same-sex "marriage."

"We are not paranoid, someone really is after us," said General Counsel Bob Chanin in an address to NEA affiliates on the occasion of his retirement.

"Why are these conservative and right-wing bastards picking on NEA and its affiliates? I will tell you why: it is the price we pay for success. NEA and its affiliates have been singled out because they are the most effective unions in the U.S."

Chanin also noted that, in his opinion, NEA's advocacy is "effective" "not because of our creative ideas, it is not because of the merit of our positions, it is not because we care about children, and it is not because we have a vision of a great public school for every child. NEA and its affiliates are effective advocates because we have power.

"And we have power because there are more than 3.2 million people who are willing to pay us hundreds of millions of dollars in dues each year because they believe that we are the union that can most effectively represent them."

Although the Obama administration is more friendly to the left-leaning NEA than the Bush administration was, lamented Chanin, "attacks by conservatives and right-wing troops will continue."

According to a Baptist Press (BP) report, NEA delegates at the July 1-6 meeting voted 69-31 to reject an amendment stating the union had "no position" on abortion, which would have invalidated a resolution professing the group's support for "family planning, including the right to reproductive freedom." While the NEA technically holds a "neutral" position on abortion, this amounts to promoting a women's ability to choose, an NEA member told BP.

Despite protests that the group's involvement in same-sex "marriage" was causing a loss in membership, delegates at the meeting adopted an action plan strengthening the NEA's support of homosexuality with a vow to support same-sex "marriage" or civil union legislation.

Specifically, the resolution stated the group would support the enactment of same-sex "marriage" laws, and fight both state and federal constitutional or statutory provisions defining marriage as between a man and a woman.

I guess we “right wing bastards” just don’t care for perverts like you infecting the minds of our children with your contempt for freedom, individual excellence, heterosexuality, and the United States.

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posted on 07/09/2009 1:20:27 PM PDT
by Oldpuppymax
(AGENDA OF THE LEFT EXPOSED)

"Why are these conservative and right-wing bastards picking on NEA and its affiliates? I will tell you why: it is the price we pay for success. NEA and its affiliates have been singled out because they are the most effective unions in the U.S."

He defines success as being a great union, I would define succes as educating our children to the highest standard.

I wonder if he was ever concerned about that?

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posted on 07/09/2009 1:22:41 PM PDT
by Kakaze
(Exterminate Islamofacism and apologize for nothing.....except not doing it sooner!)

NEA and its affiliates have been singled out because they are the most effective unions in the U.S.”
That’s because they have a virtual monopoly and all they care about is perverting the minds of children.’”””

R$ejecting the NEA? WHY??

1. Because NEA supports same sex ‘marriages’. LBGT’s are freaks, who want to be considered mainstream, and they are NOT mainstream. Quit telling me I have to ‘accept’ them in any form.

3. After 45 years of total control of the nation’s ‘education’ system, NEA is consistently producing students who are unemployable. The shining few who are worth something are students who SURVIVED the NEA indoctrination in the guise of ‘education’.

4. NEA is a group of ‘workers’ who have TENURE. NO OTHER JOB in the world has tenure. NO matter how badly they do their jobs, they cannot get booted out. Serious house cleaning needs to be done, and tenure needs to be erased for good.

I was an AFL-CIO member and they tend to be more ideological than the UAW but I never saw the lockstep voting that some fantasize that happens among industrial union workers. It might happen in the cities but those people would vote liberal anyway.

The industrial unions have their own problems but they don’t control what our children are taught.

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posted on 07/09/2009 1:44:06 PM PDT
by cripplecreek
(The poor bastards have us surrounded.)

The industrial unions have their own problems but they dont control what our children are taught.

Excellent point.

Members of say an ironworkers union are really only interested in how much they are going to get paid and long-term benefits. The union leadership may be interested in political agendas but not the members themselves, this is not the case with the NEA.

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posted on 07/09/2009 2:01:43 PM PDT
by wagglebee
("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)

It was the industrial and trade unions who voted for Reagan and became the core of the Reagan democrats. It seems that the coal workers voted pretty heavily for Bush as well.

A friend of mine worked at a union shop in Dexter Michigan during the 2000 election. He said his union steward was supposed to pass out pro Gore literature but always threw it in the trash and told them they could get it from there if they wanted it. LOL

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posted on 07/09/2009 2:10:49 PM PDT
by cripplecreek
(The poor bastards have us surrounded.)

The NEA is a main part of what is wrong with America today, IMO. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

The goal is Marxism. Schools are the Marxists’ most effective tool for reaching that goal.

That we have the government schools that we do was **inevitable**! Our government schools were a socialistic scheme from the beginning! It's goal has always been creating pliant citizens of the fascist state. It's taken a few generations but the goal has been achieved.

It is probably too late but if conservatives want to beat back Marxism they must do 2 things:

1) Close down the government K-12 schools.

2) Provide tuition-free, conservative, **private** K-12 schools for every child in the nation. They can do this by forming educational foundations that would issue grants to individual conservative teachers willing to open one-room school houses. The foundations would certify the conservative teacher, test the students, and approve the curriculum.

If our colleges and university classrooms were filled with student capable of defending their faith and our nation's founding principles, their Marxist professors would wither before them!

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posted on 07/09/2009 2:13:34 PM PDT
by wintertime
(People are not stupid! Good ideas win!)

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